Wounded Japanese soldier emerging from cave to surrender on Okinawa Island, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. Wounded Japanese soldier emerging from cave to surrender to U.S. Marines; smoke visible near cave. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/25/45--No suicide for him--A U.S. Marine (L) signals his companions to hold their fire as a wounded Japanese soldier emerges from his cave on Okinawa to surrender. Other Japanese in the cave gave up soon after. Earlier in the war, Japanese who surrendered amounted to one per cent of the total enemy troops killed or captured. On Okinawa, the percentage of prisoners in the total amounted to 11 per cent.--Marine Corps Photo through Rome OWI.--Approved by appropriate military authority. (List A Out) 7196." Okinawa, Japan. 25 July 1945
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07/25/1945
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
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Okinawa-jima
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Marines (Military personnel)--Okinawa
Soldiers--Japanese--Okinawa
Surrenders--Japanese--Okinawa
Caves--Okinawa